Terms used to describe the motor neuron diseases can be confusing ; in the UK " motor neuron disease " ( with " neuron " sometimes spelt " neurone ") refers to both amyotrophic lateral sclerosis ( the most common form of disease ) and to the broader spectrum of motor neuron diseases including progressive muscular atrophy, primary lateral sclerosis, and progressive bulbar palsy.

The use of full stops / periods after most abbreviations can also be found in the UK, although publications generally tend to eschew the use of American punctuation.

For example the United States uses NTSC-M, the UK uses PAL-I, France uses SECAM-L, much of Western Europe and Australia uses PAL-B / G, most of Eastern Europe uses PAL-D / K or SECAM-D / K and so on.

The Movie has now become the most successful movie musical of all time and has been named the number one box office smash of 2008, and the biggest-selling DVD ever in the UK.

Although the disease is not a threat to humans the most vulnerable common domestic ruminants in the UK are cattle, goats and, especially, sheep.

Despite fox hunting being banned by the Hunting Act in 2004, Boxing Day remains the biggest hunt of the year for most hunts in the UK by use of scent drag trails instead of live quarry.

In the UK, cancer and cardiac problems seem to be the most frequent causes of premature death.

* Tasha, a female borzoi belonging to the noted vet Buster Lloyd-Jones ( founder of Denes natural pet foods ), was born in the UK during the Second World War and is the pedigree ancestor of most British borzoi bloodlines.

In the UK today, building societies actively compete with banks for most consumer banking services, especially mortgage lending and savings accounts.

Belfast is one of the most visited cities in the UK, and the second most visited on the island of Ireland.

Due to their status as an overseas territory of the UK, the Cayman Islands have no representation either on the United Nations, or in most other international organizations.

In the most famous case of policy failure, Black Wednesday, George Soros arbitraged the pound sterling's relationship to the ECU and ( after making $ 2 billion himself and forcing the UK to spend over $ 8bn defending the pound ) forced it to abandon its policy.

As an extension of his 6 Music show, Charles regularly takes the Funk and Soul Club to varied venues across the UK and to most major music festivals.

The episode where Alan met his death under the tram gave Coronation Street its highest ever viewing figures of 26. 9 million, and is still the 9th most watched UK broadcast of all time.

Most episodes in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s rated with over 20 million viewers and during the 1990s and early 2000s 15 – 20 million per episode would be typical Like most terrestrial television in the UK, a dramatic decline in viewership has taken place and the show currently posts figures of between 8 and 14 million per episode.

The programme currently rates as one of the most watched programmes on UK television for every day it is aired.

In the UK, most chocolatiers purchase their chocolate from them, to melt, mold and package to their own design.

In a wider sense, most companies in the UK are created under statute since the Companies Act 1985 specifies how a company may be created by a member of the public, but these companies are not called ' statutory corporations '.

Today the Christadelphian body remains divided into " fellowships " ( of which in the UK it is estimated that there are 23 ), the largest being the Central fellowship, named after the now-defunct Birmingham Central ecclesia, once its largest and most influential ecclesia.

Many ecclesias organise holidays for young people, the most popular form in the UK being camping holidays and Youth Weekends such as Swanwick and others locally organised by different ecclesias.

This led to the addition of the number sign (#, sometimes called ' octothorpe ,' ' pound ' or ' diamond ' in this context-' hash ' or ' gate ' in the UK ) and asterisk or " star " (*) keys as well as a group of keys for menu selection: A, B, C and D. In the end, the lettered keys were dropped from most phones, and it was many years before these keys became widely used for vertical service codes such as * 67 in the United States of America and Canada to suppress caller ID.

Lynne's comeback with ELO began in 2000 with the release of a retrospective box set, Flashback, containing three CDs of remastered tracks and a handful of out-takes and unfinished works, most notably a new version of ELO's only UK number one hit " Xanadu ".

The most successful of the first wave was Maximum Speed, which successfully captured the frenetic world of a mod revival scene that was propelling bands like Secret Affair, Purple Hearts and The Chords into the UK charts.

In the UK, most Premier League or Football League football clubs have one or more fanzines which supplement, oppose and complement the club's official magazine or matchday programme.

Planted in 1996, these palms are now some of the largest in the UK and for the last few years have fruited and produced viable seed, the first time this species of palm has been recorded doing so in the UK.

In the UK, the use of cyclodienes as seed dressings for autumn-sown cereals was banned in 1975 and the levels of the chemicals present in the bird population began to fall.

To raise seed money for future enterprises they had planned, the pair intended to import and sell electric lawnmowers built in the UK.

" No mean feat ... driving at almost twice today's maximum ( UK ) speed limit into a steep turn, assaulted by the g-force induced by 30 degree banking twice every minute, using Forties technology, leaf spring suspension and narrow crossply tyres ... Johnson remarked that the car felt so good it could have gone on for another week, an off-the-cuff comment that sowed the seed for another idea.

The next year Hicks Muse continued buying US and Latin American media companies, as well as a few oddities ( a UK software maker, a Danish seed company, and US direct-seller Home Interiors and Gifts ).

In the UK, potatoes are not considered by the NHS as counting towards the five portions of fruit and vegetables diet.

In the UK, potatoes form part of the traditional staple fish and chips.

* Potato chips ( Canada and USA usage ), a snack food made from potatoes, also known as crisps in the UK and some other English-speaking countries

Anti-biotechnology protest groups have criticized BASF's plans to hold trials of GMO potatoes in the UK.

Lamb's liver is the most common form of offal eaten in the UK, traditionally used in the family favourite ( and pub grub staple ) of liver with onions and / or bacon and mashed potatoes.

Food court menus are tailored to international tastes, with poutine on offer in Canada, seafood-topped pizza available in Asian and Mexican locations, clam chowder in Japan, Taiwan & South Korea, jacket potatoes in the UK and meat pies in Australia.

" ( answers: ' long, narrow pieces of potato that have been deep-fried ' in the UK, ' slim slices of potatoes deep fried or baked until crisp ' in the US ).

It is the only professional football team in the UK to originate from a school team and played in the Scottish Premier League, having won the Scottish First Division title during 2007 / 2008, They were relegated 2010 / 2011 Season.

The majority of perry pear varieties in the UK originate from the counties of Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire in the west of England.

A seller account can be used to process payments up to £ 100 that originate from a UK registered credit or debit card.

* The National Pollen and Aerobiology Research Unit from where all UK national pollen forecasts originate, and testing of new hay fever and anti-allergen devices is conducted.

* 1963 – Execution of Henry John Burnett, the last man to be hanged in Scotland, UK.

In individual competition, the UK is often divided by subnational country ( England, Scotland, Wales and so on.

Along with the UK national radio stations, Radio Scotland and the Gaelic language service BBC Radio nan Gàidheal is also broadcast, despite few speakers residing in the city.

Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Republic of Ireland, Australia and New Zealand are notable examples of countries within the UK, or with previous links to it, that use non-FPTP electoral systems ( Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales use First Past the Post in United Kingdom general elections, however ).

In the UK, the Prohibition of Female Circumcision Act 1985 outlawed the procedure in Britain itself, and the Female Genital Mutilation Act 2003 and Prohibition of Female Genital Mutilation ( Scotland ) Act 2005 made it an offence for FGM to be performed anywhere in the world on British citizens or permanent residents.

Support in Scotland was critical to Labour's overall electoral fortunes as without Scottish MPs it would have gained only two UK electoral victories in the 20th century ( 1945 and 1966 ).

In the 2001 census 42. 4 per cent of the population identified with the Church of Scotland, 15. 9 per cent with Catholicism and 6. 8 with other forms of Christianity, making up roughly 65 per cent of the population ( compared with 72 per cent for the UK as a whole ).

Still in Scotland Hogmanay and Ne ' erday are as or more important than Christmas Eve and Christmas Day in the rest of the UK.

The 2001 UK Census states in Scotland 50. 000 people identified as having Irish heritage.

The subsystem products were manufactured in Kingston ( displays and controllers ), Endicott ( printers ), and Greenock, Scotland, UK, ( most products ) and shipped to users in U. S. and worldwide.

However, due to the nature of the political union between Scotland and England forming the UK the reunification of Berwick goes largely unpursued.

Every year sidecar racers travel from all over the UK to Knockhill in Scotland to race in the prestigious ' Jock Taylor Memorial Trophy ' race.

Setts may be registered with the International Tartan Index ( ITI ) of the charitable organisation Scottish Tartans Authority ( STA ), which maintains a collection of fabric samples characterized by name and thread count, for free, and / or registered with the Scottish Register of Tartans ( SRT ) of the statutory body the National Archives of Scotland ( NAS ), if the tartan meets NAS's criteria, for UK ₤ 70 as of 2010.

Land's End to John o ' Groats in Scotland is a distance of by road and this Land's End to John o ' Groats distance is often used to define races, walks or charitable events in the UK.

File: Edinburgh labyrinth. jpg | Edinburgh labyrinth, George Square Gardens, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Historical ties, especially with Scotland, make the UK historically one of the more important donors and supporters of Malawi.

The UK is a unitary state formed initially by the merger of two independent kingdoms, the Kingdom of England and the Kingdom of Scotland, but the Treaty of Union ( 1707 ) that set out the agreed terms has ensured the continuation of distinct features of each state, including separate legal systems and separate national churches.

The British House of Lords, as the court of last appeal outside Scotland before the creation of the UK Supreme Court, was not strictly bound to always follow its own decisions until the case London Street Tramways v London County Council AC 375.

Slime mold Stemonitis fusca in Scotland, UK

The uninhabited islands include Mousa, known for the Broch of Mousa, the finest preserved example in Scotland of these Iron Age round towers, St Ninian's Isle connected to Mainland by the largest active tombolo in the UK, and Out Stack, the northernmost point of the British Isles.

Although The Sin of Pride was critically acclaimed and the Undertones performed several gigs in both Scotland and England to promote the release of this album, The Sin of Pride only reached number 43 in the UK chart.

Scotland at, is second largest, accounting for about a third of the area of the UK.

Though the UK parliament remains the sovereign parliament, Scotland has a parliament and Wales and Northern Ireland have assemblies.